Hacked email accounts - BEWARE

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Ron

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If any of you get an email that appears to come from someone you know with an attached PDF file that is secured, don't open it; report as a scam. If you suspect anything have a look at your Deleted folder and recover deleted emails. If anyone has been using your email account you will see loads of emails that have been received into your email account without you knowing. The ****ers will try to get your bank(s) to transfer funds urgently. I have had 2 banks contact me by phone about emails they have received (seemingly) from me, to transfer money. One of them I asked to send me a copy of the email which they did but I didn't receive it. I subsequently spoke to the bank and they had already received a reply (seemingly) from me confirming the request. I tracked the emails in my Deleted folder by recovering deleted emails. They obviously have a way of automatically emailing all contacts and hiding the emails from the account because there were loads of them all dated today. Bastards

Oh and quickly change your password
 
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Ron said:
If any of you get an email that appears to come from someone you know with an attached PDF file that is secured, don't open it; report as a scam. If you suspect anything have a look at your Deleted folder and recover deleted emails. If anyone has been using your email account you will see loads of emails that have been received into your email account without you knowing. The ****ers will try to get your bank(s) to transfer funds urgently. I have had 2 banks contact me by phone about emails they have received (seemingly) from me, to transfer money. One of them I asked to send me a copy of the email which they did but I didn't receive it. I subsequently spoke to the bank and they had already received a reply (seemingly) from me confirming the request. I tracked the emails in my Deleted folder by recovering deleted emails. They obviously have a way of automatically emailing all contacts and hiding the emails from the account because there were loads of them all dated today. Bastards

Oh and quickly change your password
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Set up 2FA for a month or so, run several antivirus scans, tell banks that they should never request any money transfers via email and use a decent password ffs.
 
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Toby said:
Set up 2FA for a month or so, run several antivirus scans, tell banks that they should never request any money transfers via email and use a decent password ffs.
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However strong your password is, there are ways to get at it. I don't know them but there are times when you have to enter your password to prove who you are before being allowed to change personal details. An example of when you don't enter your password for security reasons is to open a secured PDF file. There are probably loads of examples that could fool the unsuspecting, most of which (admittedly) would be known to the wise people on here. Just trying to be helpful <ok>
 
Ron said:
However strong your password is, there are ways to get at it. I don't know them but there are times when you have to enter your password to prove who you are before being allowed to change personal details. An example of when you don't enter your password for security reasons is to open a secured PDF file. There are probably loads of examples that could fool the unsuspecting, most of which (admittedly) would be known to the wise people on here. Just trying to be helpful <ok>
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You're right about passwords m8 waste of time. I keep it simple all my important accounts ie; bank account, credit card etc I use 1966 Password Hint; the year England won the worls cup <ok>
 
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Ron said:
However strong your password is, there are ways to get at it. I don't know them but there are times when you have to enter your password to prove who you are before being allowed to change personal details. An example of when you don't enter your password for security reasons is to open a secured PDF file. There are probably loads of examples that could fool the unsuspecting, most of which (admittedly) would be known to the wise people on here. Just trying to be helpful <ok>
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Trust me, if your password is decent there's no chance anyone can break it without flagging some hacking attempt (on real websites, not beatdown ones).

Just use a long sentence of random words, something easy to remember and it's nearly impossible for them to crack it (or highly unlikely as it'd be an absolute waste of time).

GroveRangerisaspasticofepicproportions would do, for example <ok>

PS: Opening unsolicited PDFs will give you viruses <ok>
 
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Toby said:
Trust me, if your password is decent there's no chance anyone can break it without flagging some hacking attempt (on real websites, not beatdown ones).

Just use a long sentence of random words, something easy to remember and it's nearly impossible for them to crack it (or highly unlikely as it'd be an absolute waste of time).

GroveRangerisaspasticofepicproportions would do, for example <ok>

PS: Opening unsolicited PDFs will give you viruses <ok>
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Toby is actually correct about passwords <yikes>
 
I used to patch programs with octal and hexadecimal (binary if necessary). Stop the computer insert patch and "S" start.
 
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